Disillusioned(In 1856, his family all dead on Nanjing struggle killed by Wei Changhui ), Shi led an army of 100,000 out of the Taiping capital in 1857. He fought six years throughout central China against the much larger armies of the Qing Dynasty,and more Taiping forces follow him over 400,000 soldiers along his combat line, but its negative infulence to Taiping Rebellion that broken and shortaged primary area of defense everywhere. by way of example, Chen Yucheng failed and dead on central China.
On the banks of the Dadu, a river in Sichuan, he stopped for three days to celebrate the birth of a son, as he was a prince of the Heavenly Kingdom. The Qing finally caught up with Shi Dakai and although pleading that he quickly be killed and that the 2,000 men who were the faithful remnants of his troops be spared, he was slowly dismembered on Chengdu and all his men were massacred.
He writted some hero's romantic poets that encouraged more and more Chinese people putin revoluted the Qing dynasty, and created the Republic of China in 1912.
Sources
- Hessler, Peter River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.
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